Sentence examples for were flitting about from inspiring English sources

Party leaders were flitting about everywhere and not spending enough time in one place, he added.

Photographers were flitting about.

"We were having dinner at Wystan and Chester's flat, and they were flitting about in and out of the kitchen, making a fuss, while we sat at the table and had a drink with the Stravinskys.

Ms. Plumb, blond and charming in her black dress, was flitting about, explaining the inspiration for her artwork.

Two of the more fiery – and sporadically coherent – speakers, who by now have become regulars on the CPAC roster, unleashed assaults on the media and American society in general in one case (NRA chief Wayne LaPierre), and on whatever happened to be flitting about his head from one second to the next in the other (Donald Trump).

I joined him, when we later removed to the bar, in a toast to what he called "le vrai saint esprit"—the Holy Spirit, as the πνεΰμα άγιον and שדו קחור, had been flitting about our corner of the lobby that humanity carries with it.

Readers were flitting from story to story, rarely paying.

Hundreds of fireflies were flitting across a starry sky.

I always have several pieces of writing on the go - at the moment, I'm flitting between a play about Shakespeare, a very short introduction to English literature and a memoir about living with a child's renal failure - so the bookshelves throw up pleasingly odd juxtapositions.

At the time he had been flitting from abstemious to binge-drinker, but he was still in denial about his alcoholism.

"He was flitting around before joining us.